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Women's basketball: Team shows off court, dance skills at Lobo Howl

Liam Cary-Eaves | October 20

In a night ruled by nerves, good 3-point shooting and a team song and dance, the New Mexico women’s basketball team was introduced to its home crowd during the annual Lobo Howl. Coming down the ramp in The Pit for the first time in the 2014 season in front of 7,123 fans on Friday night, the Lobos appeared decidedly uncomfortable.“These guys were so nervous during the 11-man break, the full-court drill that we did,” head coach Yvonne Sanchez said. “You could tell by the shots and the passes; but they enjoyed it so much.”

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News

Urge to serve paves path for Sanchez

Kyle Tomasi , Micaela Eldridge-Lane and Hayley Mitchell | October 20

This November, Republican incumbent John Sanchez hopes to win his second term as lieutenant governor of New Mexico. And his prospects look good.His fate is tied to that of his running mate, Gov. Susana Martinez, who is leading in the polls against the Democratic ticket of Gary King and Deb Haaland.Sanchez said he has always had a passion for helping people and wanting to make New Mexico a better place to live. He said it emerged as a desire to serve publicly after his being a business owner for more than 20 years.

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Sports

Volleyball: Team's problems a mystery to coach, players

Liam Cary-Eaves | October 20

Head coach Jeff Nelson is searching for solutions to the New Mexico volleyball team’s recent struggles. UNM (11-9, 4-4 Mountain West) is on a four-match losing streak, and the unit’s recently faltering play is baffling Nelson.“I don’t really have answers right now,” Nelson said following a 3-1 loss to Wyoming (16-5, 5-3 MW) on Saturday.

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Sports

Football: Last -minute plays not enough to top Falcons

Thomas Romero-Salas | October 20

Lamar Jordan didn’t display any late-game magic against Air Force. The freshman quarterback led New Mexico on its final three drives, but came away with zero points as the Lobos lost 35-31 to the Falcons in Colorado Springs on Saturday.UNM’s last three possessions amounted to just 26 yards on 11 plays.

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News

Prof.'s curiosity led to new dinosaur discovery

Lena Giudi | October 20

In 2003, Jason Moore was on a walk with his parents along the Idaho-Wyoming border when he noticed pieces of bone sticking out of a hillside. Moore became immediately interested and began to search the rock face for more fragments. He and his parents soon discovered that the bones belonged to a dinosaur skeleton buried beneath the rock outcropping.Not only did the discovery double the number of dinosaur bones found in Idaho, but the dinosaur turned out to be a new species entirely. Further excavations revealed the specimen to be a type of nodosaur, an armored dinosaur that walked on four legs, had a clubbed tail and lived during the mid-Cretaceous period, Moore said.

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News

Haaland: Culture big part of campaign focus

Kyle Tomasi , Micaela Eldridge-Lane and Hayley Mitchell | October 20

If Democratic candidate Deb Haaland is elected as New Mexico’s lieutenant governor on Nov. 4, she will be the first Native American to hold the position. Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, has spent most of her life in Albuquerque and said her values remain rooted in her native traditions.Haaland has been involved in political campaigns for the past 10 years. In 2004 she worked as a full-time volunteer for the John Kerry campaign. She also worked for the Barack Obama campaigns of 2008 and 2012 alongside her daughter, who has assisted with political campaigns since she was nine years old.

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News

The Howl: Oct. 18, 2014 episode

October 18

The Howl is a weekly online newscast produced by the Daily Lobo. On this week's show: Susana Martinez and Gary King get set to debate; Michelle Lujan Grisham and Mike Frese prepare for a forum of their own; Brianna Serna talks to students about marijuana policy; Brianna Gallegos goes to a demonstration against Columbus Day; Micaela Eldridge-Lane talks to a group of UNM students about their independent study; Expectations are set for the men's and women's basketball teams; The football team travels to Colorado Springs.

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News

Female student is groped In campus parking lot

October 17

On Friday, October 17, a female UNM student was groped on campus. The suspect was caught by UNMPD shortly after. The Howl's Brianna Serna and Michael Sol Warren have the story.

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Sports

UNM volleyball team swept by No. 6 Colorado State

Liam Cary-Eaves | October 17

New Mexico had some bright spots against No. 6 Colorado State, despite being swept.Freshman defensive specialist Stephanie Chavez wound up with 16 digs, the game-high. Chavez said she was exited at the opportunity to help her team out in a big match against CSU (19-1, 7-0 MW).

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Opinion

Daily Lobo busted: It's Lobos, not Lobo's

October 17

For heaven's sake, people! We are LOBOS, not LOBO'S. 

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News

Student program strives for positive social influence

Sayyed Shah | October 17

UNM’s International Business Students Global is empowering students to make meaningful contributions in emerging economies by sending them to developing countries where organizations are making positive social impacts. IBSG officials desire to build robust relationships with businesses throughout the world, each in emerging economies, so that UNM will have developed strong and lasting relationships to guide cutting edge scholarship on the economies of the future, Audriana Stark, program manager of IBSG’s Ivan Karp Emerging Economies Program said.“Our 10-year goal is to have the most robust archive of student-led international consulting projects in the Western United States, oriented specifically to understanding how to build business relationships with economies that will dominate in the 21st century,” she said.

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News

Church provides sanctuary for homeless community

Matthew Reisen | October 17

One University-area church is attempting to stem the stigma of homelessness by breaking down barriers.The Central United Methodist Church holds a service every Sunday called Community of Hope that invites everyone to worship together. Associate pastor Greg Henneman said when the program began; its aim was to break through the stigma and generalization set upon a majority of the homeless population.“If you’re not familiar with a group of people, it’s easy to be uncomfortable or feel threatened. That’s part of why we’re trying to build relationships and build communities, for those barriers to come down,” Henneman said. “Our whole motivation for starting it was to bring people together.”

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Opinion

Column: Too many are living in denial

Jason Darrensburg | October 17

Climate change is real. The science is indisputable. Only a fool or a liar would deny it. Global weather patterns have changed dramatically in just the last few years. The Southwest is drying up. The drought continues unabated. It is encouraging that more people are starting to recognize the scale of the challenge humanity now faces. People can see the results of global warming with their own eyes. It’s happening everywhere, on every continent.The latest research suggests that Earth’s temperature is rising to dangerous levels far faster than even the worst-case scenarios predicted. Most scientists agree that if immediate measures are not taken, the consequences will be irreversible and extremely hazardous to human beings.

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Sports

Football: UNM hopes for a third road win

Thomas Romero-Salas | October 17

The similarities between New Mexico and Air Force begin and end with running the football.Both run the triple option offense and both rank among the top rushing offenses in the country. On the defensive side it’s a different story, as AFA has one of the better run defenses in the country, while the Lobos have one of the worst.UNM ranks No. 124, or second to last, among all Division I schools in run defense, giving up an average of nearly 287 yards per game. That’s good news for AFA, who have the second best running offense in the Mountain West, gaining 274 yards per contest.

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News

Crime briefs for Oct. 17, 2014

Erika Eddy | October 17

Phallic symbol scrawled on instructor’s windowOn Oct. 2, UNMPD was dispatched by an instructor in reference to a phallic symbol drawn on his window. According to the report, an unknown person drew the symbol in the dust of the victim’s interior office window. 

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Sports

Basketball: Chemistry key for Lobos

Liam Cary-Eaves | October 17

The New Mexico women’s basketball team is counting on its solid rapport to propel the unit through the season. The Lobos were picked to finish ninth (122 points) in the Mountain West preseason poll, following last year’s 11-19 finish. UNM is looking to build on its 6-12 conference record last season that featured a first-round exit in the Mountain West Tournament.Media members selected Colorado State to finish first in the MW after receiving 21 first-place votes and 276 points. Boise State was picked to finish second with 241 points and Wyoming was selected to place third with 235 points.

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Culture

Holiday remembers exodus

October 16

Though it’s only made of pipes, wood and tree branches, the temporary structure behind Hillel House is a symbol of remembrance, struggle and community. Members of UNM’s Jewish organization are celebrating Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday, by constructing their temporary structure behind the building and cooking traditional food.Ezra Rabinsky, a junior linguistics major, said Sukkot is a longstanding traditional holiday in remembrance of the journey their ancestors made through the desert for 40 years after their exodus from Egypt.

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Opinion

Guest column: Teaching for a more diversified America

October 16

This month I have the privilege of celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month alongside 120 strong, resilient and tenacious eighth- and ninth-graders.In the majority African-American school where I teach, most of my students don’t share my Hispanic identity. And yet, the occasion has offered us a powerful opportunity to draw connections around what we do share.As I work to create a culturally responsive classroom where my kids find inspiration from figures like Maya Angelou and Frederick Douglass, we also learn about Cesar Chavez and Sandra Cisneros. Along the way, we see the many similarities in our struggles and our stories, along with a common future full of promise and possibility.

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News

Grants gives DataONE wings

Tomas Lujan | October 16

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $15 million grant to researchers at the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences to continue developing its Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE, project. DataONE is a multinational cyber-infrastructure with the aim of consolidating environmental data from around the world. Researchers said the long-term benefits of creating such a resource are potentially limitless.Professor William Michener, DataONE principal investigator, said the project currently has three components composed of coordinating nodes, member nodes and the investigator tool kit.

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News

Campus briefs for Oct. 16, 2014

October 16

Latino AIDS awarenessUNM Truman Health Services, along with New Mexico agencies and advocacy groups, kicked off a series of activities to promote HIV/AIDS education. According to UNM, this year’s events are free and open to the public:Today from 7 to 10 p.m., the 6th Annual Queenceñera and Kingceñera will be crowned in a competitive drag show at N’MPower, 136 Washington St. SE, Suite E.